Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is the high importance of personality in most political campaigns. Whereas Europeans generally vote for parties rather than individuals, U.S. campaigning requires the candidate to plunge into crowds, to "press the flesh" until his right hand bleeds, to ride in open cars, to stand silhouetted against TV lights. Nor is the assassination in Los Angeles likely to alter such techniques. Two weeks before his death, Robert Kennedy himself told French Novelist-Diplomat Remain Gary: "There is no way to protect a candidate during an electoral campaign. You have to give yourself to the crowd and from then on count...
...your daughter if you wanted her to be a teacher."), and reached the Agassiz Museum. "Here are the world famous glass flowers. Don't back in any further than the big branch, I'd rather stick out a little bit than bust another branch. Take the center path and ride the elevator to the glass flowers, third floor...
Hundreds of guests, including President Pusey and the late Senator's long time Harvard supporters, moved toward Pennsylvania Station through silent crowds and boarded the train for the long ride to Washington...
While our correspondents on campuses contributed much to the story, many key interviews were handled by Education Reporter Peter Babcox. At his alma mater, Columbia College (Class of '60), he taped the thoughts of Rebel Student Leader David Shapiro during a taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta Kappa poet was to give a reading. Later, Peter sat in on a midnight bull session with students in Buffalo, then drove the next morning to State College, Pa., with Sociologist Edgar Friedenberg, interviewing him en route. Babcox ended his school swing in a talk with a Penn State senior...
...again a good one comes along. Bathed in innocence, making mistakes as though they had never been made before, Harvey Hart's The Sweet Ride exists in passive limbo between art and product and, like Blow-Up, reminds us how much can be created from a skeletal dramatic narrative. Its surf, cycle, and psychedelic setting is seldom exploited as such, and even the semi-mystery which motivates the plot is largely abandoned in favor of extended description of a bittersweet life-style gone slightly out of hand. The Sweet Ride tries to beat the trappings of its own genre...